I want my mummy!

As professional photographers, we love to photograph practically everything – but it is well known that when it comes to kids and animals, it’s hard to always have their cooperation. Well, we headed into the NY Animal Medical Center to photograph some of their recent patients – 32 of them – and boy were they cooperative. These fellas – birds, a cat, snakes and a yep, a croc – all showed up together and shared one common characteristic – They are 2,500 year old mummies. You see, the Brooklyn Museum is planning an exhibition in 2013 but in the meantime, the 32 mummies were brought to the NYAMC so that they could be CT scanned. The CT scan provides a great opportunity to study the contents of the mummies without disturbing their delicate wrappings. I thought it was gonna be sort of icky but it was anything but – it turned out to be one of the coolest and most fascinating jobs photography by SKY has ever done.

photography by sky
This must be the cat! But most were not so easily identified
We are guessing crocodile
These are two of the many ibis
A fascinating 3-D image

 

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